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Signs of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 23.

Religious Combinations in Politics
Earlier text: The True Principle Stated

Religious Census of the Men and Religion Forward Movement

By W. A. Colcord

Or the Beginning of the Inquisition in the United States

By W. A. Colcord, Author of "The Rights of Man"
WHEN Justinian, in 532 A.D., in order "to unite all men in ONE FAITH," decreed that all in the Roman empire who did not within three months embrace the Catholic faith were to be "declared infamous, and as such excluded from all employments both civil and military, rendered incapable of leaving anything by will, and all their estates confiscated whether real or personal," his object was to make the whole Roman empire Catholic.
Manifestly this edict was aimed especially at those who were not as yet Catholics. The execution of it would, of necessity, demand in some way a religious census of the empire, in order to ascertain who were and who were not Catholics.
The edict was executed, and as a result, "great numbers," says Bower in his "History of the Popes" (John II, par. 2), "were driven from their habitations with their wives and children, stripped and naked. Others betook themselves to flight, carrying with them what they could conceal, for their support and maintenance; but they were plundered of what little they had, and many of them inhumanly massacred."

The Church Federation Program

As stated in its constitution, the purpose of the Church Federation Movement in the United States, which held its initial council in New York, in November, 1905, is "to manifest the essential ONENESS of the Christian churches of America," and "to promote the spirit of fellowship, service, and coöperation among them."
In the session of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, held in Philadelphia, in December, 1908, definite plans were laid for the taking of a religious census of the country, and this specially with a view to ascertaining who were not professed Christians and regular church attendants. For the success of the movement it was declared that "a joint bureau of information" was necessary; and that —
"To learn all the facts and ally all the factors is the only method of usefulness open to a federation."
It was further declared that "knowledge of men alone gives power over men," and that —
"The time has come when the churches may and must know every individual in the entire community as accurately as they now know their own membership."—Report of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, Philadelphia session, 1908, page 198.
"The churches," it was stated, "have as great an opportunity as ever to-day, if they will only combine to meet the real needs of each community." Through such combination, it was said, there was made possible "a systematic campaign to Christianize every phase of the life of the entire commonwealth."
"Some church responsible for each square mile!" was announced as the watchword; — responsible "to know and seek in some way EACH INDIVIDUAL THEREIN, mutually reporting preferences to sister churches." "The key-note is responsibility!" it was declared. "Dynamite is in that word!"
In other words, as the object of Justinian was to make the whole Roman empire Catholic, so the manifest object of the Church Federation movement in this country is to make all America Christian.
To carry out this program of "Christianizing every phase of the life of the entire commonwealth," and of the churches' knowing "every individual in the entire community as accurately as they now know their own membership," it was decided that there must be —
"A compilation of statistics, civil and religious, State and local, as the basis for the study of the task and degree of success of the churches in reaching the entire population."—Ib., page 192.

The Census Taking Inaugurated under the Men and Religion Forward Movement

During the autumn of 1911 the taking of this census was begun under what is known as the Men and Religion Forward Movement. As a part of a several days' campaign in a given locality, a principal feature of the program under this movement is the taking of a religious census of the entire community, by volunteers from the various churches. Information cards are supplied these workers, or inquisitors, as they might be termed, by means of which it is designed that the churches shall be supplied with the following facts concerning every man, and every boy over fifteen years of age, in the given district or territory:
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THE CZAR OF THE BELLS

The largest bell in the world, which once hung in the Kremlin, Moscow, Russia. It fell during a fire in 1737, and a large piece was broken out. It was cast in 1733, has a diameter of 18 feet, and weighs 200 tons. As it can not be used, it stands on a pedestal in the street. While in use it rang for despotic tyranny and intolerance. Was its fall and breaking a prophecy of the downfall of Russian tyranny and oppression? Our own famous Liberty Bell rang for freedom, and not long afterward broke to ring no more. Was it a prophecy of the triumph of superstition and intolerance now modestly but persistently pushing its way to the fore?
  1. Address.
  2. Name.
  3. Age.
  4. Church of which member.
(a) Denomination. (b) Name. (c) Its location. 5. Church or Sunday-school now attended. (a) Denomination. (b) Name.
  1. If you are not a church-member, or are not now attending a church or Sunday-school, what denomination is your preference?
  2. Name of visitor.
This movement struck Washington, D. C., in February, 1912. Referring to it, the Washington "Times" of February 22 said:
"An organized movement has been set on foot by the ministers of Washington to ascertain 'why people do not go to church,' and other cognate questions."
When the representatives of the movement should come around, the people were urged to "tell them the truth." They were told that "there should be no effort at evasion." The movement was declared to be "the most ambitious undertaking in the interests of religion ever attempted in the city — a house-to-house canvass for obtaining accurate information regarding the church allegiance of men and boys."—"Washington Herald," February 19, 1912.
In this work Protestants and Catholics were united. The central committee in charge of the census consisted of "eight Protestants, five Catholics, and one representative of the Jewish congregations." Representatives of these faiths, it was said, "will make a systematic search for men and boys with the object of finding what proportions of the total number attend church and Sunday-school regularly, occasionally, or not at all."
Accordingly two thousand volunteers were called for to take the religious census of the District of Columbia. The volunteers responded, and the census taking was begun Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock, February 25, and was continued until Sunday, March 3. The Washington "Times" of the latter date announced that 125,000 men had been enumerated; that the "indexing of names" would commence at once, and added:
"Where a boy or man has expressed willingness to attend a certain church, the church mentioned will be given the card on which the name occurs. Then the man or boy will be urged to attend Christian services."

The Real Object Revealed

All this, while inquisitorial in character, and compromising from a Protestant standpoint, might be looked upon by many as measurably innocent; but from published statements it was revealed that more is contemplated in this movement than mere voluntary church attendance. As reported in the Washington "Times" of February 17, 1912, the real object of the leaders of this movement, in Washington at least, is —
"An attempt to mold public sentiment to such a point that Congress will be forced to enact such legislation as the church people believe will be necessary to make Washington the model city of America."
And we have not far to go to learn what that means. Every one at all acquainted with the facts knows that the one great thing above all others which "the church people," not only in Washington, but throughout the United States, believe necessary to make Washington "the model city of America," is A COMPULSORY, CONGRESS-ENACTED SUNDAY LAW.
And this fact was more than hinted at in a published list here of objects aimed at by the Men and Religion Forward Movement. The eighteenth point in the enumeration as published, was the securing of "one day's rest in seven." In fact no less than twenty-five of the thirty-two items mentioned in the list would demand legislation.
All of which goes to show that the Men and Religion Forward Movement is simply carrying out the program laid down by the Church Federation Movement at its Philadelphia session in 1908, and is part and parcel of that movement.
Where this federation stands upon the matter of Sunday legislation was made clear at this session. In the resolutions on the subject of Sunday observance reported to this council, it was urged:
"That all encroachments upon the claims and sanctity of the Lord's day should be stoutly resisted . . . by such legislation as may be secured to protect and preserve this bulwark of our American Christianity."
When the religious census enumerator under this Men and Religion Forward Movement called upon the writer, the entire family, husband, wife and boys, protested against it as a dangerous and unchristian thing, whereupon he admitted that he had had misgivings concerning it, but said that these had been explained away. And we would advise every one else who prizes liberty and pure Christianity, to look well into this or any other like movement before he unites with it, or lends his sanction or influence to it. W. A. COLCORD.

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Parents — Duties and Attitude toward Their Children

By Mary Alice Hare Loper, M.S.

IN no respect are parents to be one, more than in the training and care of their children. "A house divided against itself can not stand." If the father is a Christian and the mother is not, or vice versa, the outlook for the welfare of the children is surely uncertain. If parents disagree in regard to the rules and regulations of the home, there is sure to be discord in proportion to the disagreement. The minds of children are very keen and active, and they are not long in discovering the fact if the domestic machinery does not run smoothly. If one parent is lenient and the other severe, children soon learn to ask the one who is lenient for privileges which they feel quite sure the other would deny them. If both parents are severe, the children rebel, or become mere human machines, depending constantly upon some one else to tell them just what to do. If both parents are too lenient, the children take advantage of the fact, and do about as they please. If parents do not have proper love and respect for each other, it is impossible to do justice in the training of their children.
It requires all the tact and all the skill and all the wisdom that parents can muster to do that which is their duty and their great privilege to do for their children. The true Christian home is the type after which every home should be modeled. In such a home the parents are a unit in the government. The father provides the necessaries of life, and the mother is the home-keeper, looking after the welfare and highest interests of her husband and children, while both parents together seek to "make of home a little heaven to go to heaven in." They are wise rulers, never arguing different ideas of government in the presence of their children. Such parents are not arbitrary with each other, but settle differences of opinion privately, so that there is no friction.
The atmosphere of home should be that of sunshine and good cheer, in which uplifting thoughts may be easily cultivated. So much depends upon keeping the home sky free from unnecessary clouds and shadows! Children, like plants, must have sunshine, or their characters will become weak and dwarfed. If love unites the hearts of the parents so firmly that cold criticism is left out of the life, the children will catch the spirit, and will learn to love the good in life, and not form the habit of dwelling upon the evil or distasteful.
Parents who seek to extort obedience by means of threats of exaggerated punishment, come far short of the divine standard in child training. A mother once said to her disobedient small boy, "If I just had the energy, I would skin you." The effect was not very depressing upon the little culprit, for he well knew his mother's exaggerated way of speaking, and seemed to expect her lack of energy to continue, which it did. Our heavenly Father never seeks to frighten us into obedience. He never chastens us except in love. And were earthly parents to imitate the divine example, surely by far the greater part of present-day punishments would be eliminated. One may quote Solomon as authority in recommending the use of the rod, and at the same time fail to comprehend the real meaning of his advice. The fact is, Solomon's recommendation agrees perfectly with the advice of Paul when he says, "Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged." Solomon recommends the "rod of correction," which is the only rod that should ever be wielded in the interests of child training. The loving rod which corrects the fault is all right; but the rod of anger, the rod of revenge, the rod of indignation, and every other kind of rod, would far better be left growing where nature placed them, and where they may accomplish some good. The impatient spank, also, is a very common method of punishment which often does more harm than good. Then there is the dark closet — may it never be inflicted except by parents who enjoy the thought of going to jail themselves! It is a shame to crush the sunshine out of little lives by such unwarrantable means of torture.
No set code can be formulated for the successful training of all children. Physical ills of the same nature in different individuals may require very different treatment. So with natural ills. Treatment which would correct a fault in one child, might not be at all effectual in correcting the same fault in another. Every child is different from every other child, and it is the duty of parents to study their children individually. When little feet stray from the path of obedience, often no punishment is necessary, a few kind words being all that is needed to cause the wanderer to return. Unnecessary punishment would better be left entirely out of the home training. O, how much better it is to be loving and Christlike than to become impatient, and angrily slap and spank and whip! Kind words are so effectual, and leave only sweet memories behind. Occasions are rare when the rod is a necessity; but when it is, let it be wielded in love. The parent who does not govern himself is unfit to govern children.
The child who obeys outwardly because of fear, is not conquered, and is not in sympathy with the rules and regulations of the home. Such a child grows up lacking in filial love and respect for parental authority and advice.
Some parents pay little regard to the proper training of their children. There is a moral to be gained from the familiar story of the man who said to his dog, "Come here," and the dog went under the bed, whereupon the master resumed, "Well, then, go under the bed." There are parents who compromise with their children just like that. "Mary, you must not have that thimble. Bring it to mother." But Mary lays the thimble on a chair, and her mother resumes, "Well, then, lay it on the chair." Thus Mary learns a primary lesson in disobedience, which will make her mother more trouble later on. The woman who hides cookies from her children for fear they may eat them contrary to her wishes is depriving them of a very valuable lesson in honesty, self-denial, and respect for parental authority. There are children who do not seem to realize what real, true obedience means. When a parent makes a request, a child should comply, and do so promptly and cheerfully.
Children who are usefully employed have little time for mischief. There is nothing like exercise to keep people healthy both mentally and physically. Honest industry is a great strengthener of both brain and muscle, and its twin virtue is economy of both time and means. The child who does not learn to value moments while he is growing up, is likely never to know the value of hours in later years. The one who is allowed to waste pennies while he is a child, will probably waste dollars when he is older. Many who to-day are eking out an existence, living from hand to mouth, might be in comfortable circumstances had they only learned in childhood the worth of a penny.
Parents, while industrious and economical, should be living examples of liberality, loving their neighbors as themselves; and this sweet grace of unselfishness should be instilled into the minds of the children from early infancy. There is nothing that so clears the atmosphere of home, that renders it so congenial and enjoyable, as the divine characteristic of unselfishness. The home where each esteems others better than himself, where each finds heartfelt pleasure in loving service to others, is the home where angels love to dwell. And a neighborhood made up of such homes would surely be a foretaste of heaven itself.
Parents should cultivate good manners in the home, if they would have their children appear at ease when away from home. Company airs are like misfit clothing — they never give a good impression. The baby who stole quietly into church with his father's hat on attracted attention, but not because the hat fitted him. The quiet grace of good manners — always doing the proper thing with ease — is of inestimable value to one who would reach his greatest possibilities in life.
Every home should be supplied with good reading. Boys and girls should be taught to prize good books and papers, and to shun evil reading as they would shun the most virulent poison. Words can not express the awful consequences which eternity will reveal as the result of bad literature. Many well-meaning fathers and mothers are asleep to the fact that their boys and girls are feeding upon the miasmatic poison from the yellow scum of the swamp of sin, little dreaming that later on it will prove their ruin. But he who has acquired a real love for good reading, has found a preventive for all the ills of idleness.
Added to good reading in the home should be good music. Children who are early taught to love good reading and to appreciate good music, with drawing, painting, etc., will find enjoyment in spending their evenings at home, the place where evenings should be spent, instead of forming the ruinous habit of always seeking entertainment elsewhere. Parents who never allow the baby to go into the street, who never permit the wee boy or girl to go down-town unattended, who see to it that their school children never loiter by the way, and who seek to make the home training in every way interesting and enjoyable, are saving themselves and their children from many unpleasant experiences later on.
The most important work in the world devolves upon parents. A sacred responsibility rests upon them which they can not evade, and parents who fail to recognize this fact will make a failure of their life-work. It is possible to keep the confidence and affection of children from babyhood to mature years. It is possible for the parents' interests and the children's interests to remain one, and for parents and children to remain companions as long as life shall last. And O, the blessedness of such loving and sacred associations!
"Sweet scenes where those who view life's setting sun, Cast radiance on later lives begun; Where silver tresses mingle with the gold, And tottering man forgets that he is old."
Ah! it is possible to retain the sweetness of family relationship. It is possible so to live day by day, and to have the heart so filled with heavenly love and parental affection, as to be able to say with Saint John the Beloved, "I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth."

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By Editor

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Heartily pleased with the new book, "Advance Guard of Missions," Missionary Volunteer secretaries are recommending it to our young people.
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(Miss) Matilda Erickson, Corresponding Secretary General Department.
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A. M. Neff, Virginia Conference.
"I like 'Advance Guard' very much. I had it with me on a trip, and Elder Jackson (president of the conference) read a little in it, and I had to let him have it, he liked it so well. He ordered another for me. I think it is the best I have seen in its line. This is the kind of books we need in the young people's work."
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Second Coming

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"Heralds of His Coming," Apples of Gold Library, No. 85, gives an outline of the unmistakable signs of the nearness of Christ's coming. Increase of riches, of crime, of knowledge; last-day scoffers; signs in sun, moon, and stars; peace and safety cry; preparation for war; great spiritual declension,—are some of these evidences. This popular tract, a copy, 3 cents, post-paid; a hundred, $1.50. This office.

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That question of "Under the law? or under grace?" is a constantly recurring one. Bible Students' Library tract No. 163 gives a careful answer from the Bible. Single copy, 2 cents; a hundred, $1.00. This office.

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